Dendron News

Mike and Helen Eggleston don't want to leave their rambling, restored farmhouse in the town of Dendron .

A small town in Rockingham County has its sights set on becoming a big player in clean coal research.

Dozens of signs urging "No Coal Plant" have sprung up along the highway leading to the Surry County town of Dendron, indicators that plans for a new plant will face some local opposition.

Firefighters took one person to a hospital after someone smoking in bed started a fire in a Southwest Roanoke apartment Saturday evening, officials said.

Dozens of square black signs have cropped up along the main highway leading to this rural town in Surry County, all with the same blunt message: No Coal Plant.

At first, Helen Eggleston of Dendron was all for the coal-fired power plant proposed for her little town in Surry County.

That, in simplified form, summarizes the debate over the proposed coal-burning power plant in Surry County, the latest front in Virginia's struggle to find new energy sources while protecting the environment.

Yvonne Pierce, mayor of the small town of Dendron, sat i n the third row of chairs lined up at a meeting of the Coalition to Keep Surry Clean, and she shook her head.

Surry - Residents will have a chance next week to learn more about potential health and environment risks that some believe could arise if a proposed coal-powered energy plant is built in Dendron.

This morning the Chesapeake Climate Action Network successfully caught the attention of Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe at a rally he hosted at the 17th Street Farmer's Market in Richmond, Virginia.

A proposal to build a $6 billion coal-powered energy plant in this tiny Surry County town has some residents - and environmentalists - - questioning whether the project's benefits outweigh potential risks.

Surry County is a good place for making power. Nuclear power, that is. But not for the big coal-fired plant that Old Dominion Electric Cooperative recently announced it wants to build in Dendron.

Loading... A 2003 view of Virginia Power's coal-burning plant off Military Highway in the Deep Creek area of Chesapeake.

The Old Dominion is facing two new environmental threats. Battle lines are being drawn regarding a proposed coal-fired electricity plant in Surry County.